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• yellowwood, yellowwood tree go
  any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract
  
• lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata go
  source of most of the lancewood of commerce
  
• Guinea pepper, negro pepper, Xylopia aethiopica go
  tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine
  
• anise tree go
  any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium
  
• winter's bark, winter's bark tree, Drimys winteri go
  South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood
  
• zebrawood, zebrawood tree go
  any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood
  
• granadilla tree, granadillo, Brya ebenus go
  West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony
  
• acacia go
  any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
  
• coralwood, coral-wood, red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera pavonina go
  East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers
  
• albizzia, albizia go
  any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia
  
• conacaste, elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa go
  tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits
  
• inga go
  any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers
  
• ice-cream bean, Inga edulis go
  ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers
  
• guama, Inga laurina go
  tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers
  
• lead tree, white popinac, Leucaena glauca, Leucaena leucocephala go
  low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods
  
• wild tamarind, Lysiloma latisiliqua, Lysiloma bahamensis go
  a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico
  
• nitta tree go
  any of several Old World tropical trees of the genus Parkia having heads of red or yellow flowers followed by pods usually containing edible seeds and pulp
  
• wild tamarind, manila tamarind, camachile, huamachil, Pithecellobium dulce go
  common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum
  
• dita, dita bark, devil tree, Alstonia scholaris go
  evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes
  
• ivory tree, conessi, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica go
  tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
  
• puka, Meryta sinclairii go
  small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers
  
• cockspur, Pisonia aculeata go
  small spiny West Indian tree
  
• pandanus, screw pine go
  any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves
  
• lacebark, ribbonwood, houhere, Hoheria populnea go
  small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage
  
• ribbonwood, ribbon tree, Plagianthus regius, Plagianthus betulinus go
  deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton
  
• tulipwood tree go
  any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood
  
• red silk-cotton tree, simal, Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica go
  East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok
  
• Montezuma go
  evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers
  
• shaving-brush tree, Pseudobombax ellipticum go
  tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear
  
• quandong, quandong tree, Brisbane quandong, silver quandong tree, blue fig, Elaeocarpus grandis go
  Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
  
• Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura go
  a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit
  
• breakax, breakaxe, break-axe, Sloanea jamaicensis go
  West Indian timber tree having very hard wood
  
• bottle-tree, bottle tree go
  an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
  
• Chinese parasol tree, Chinese parasol, Japanese varnish tree, phoenix tree, Firmiana simplex go
  deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods
  
• mayeng, maple-leaved bayur, Pterospermum acerifolium go
  Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking
  
• silver tree, Tarrietia argyrodendron go
  Australian timber tree
  
• samba, obeche, obechi, arere, Triplochiton scleroxcylon go
  large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds
  
• lime, linden, linden tree, basswood, lime tree go
  any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers
  
• silver tree, Leucadendron argenteum go
  small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage
  
• prickly ash, Orites excelsa go
  Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
  
• wheel tree, firewheel tree, Stenocarpus sinuatus go
  eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers
  
• beefwood, scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus go
  tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers
  
• casuarina go
  any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves
  
• beech, beech tree go
  any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs
  
• chestnut, chestnut tree go
  any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn
  
• oak chestnut go
  a tree of the genus Castanopsis
  
• giant chinkapin, golden chinkapin, Chrysolepis chrysophylla, Castanea chrysophylla, Castanopsis chrysophylla go
  small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath
  
• tanbark oak, Lithocarpus densiflorus go
  evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves
  
• southern beech, evergreen beech go
  any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves
  
• oak, oak tree go
  a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus
  
• birch, birch tree go
  any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
  
• alder, alder tree go
  north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit
  
• hornbeam go
  any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
  
• hop hornbeam go
  any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops
  
• fringe tree go
  any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus
  
• ash, ash tree go
  any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
  
• devilwood, American olive, Osmanthus americanus go
  small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
  
• dhawa, dhava go
  an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum
  
• button tree, button mangrove, Conocarpus erectus go
  evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
  
• white mangrove, Laguncularia racemosa go
  shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America
  
• bayberry, bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, wild cinnamon, Pimenta acris go
  West Indian tree
  
• gum, gum tree go
  any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
  
• poon go
  any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
  
• calaba, Santa Maria tree, Calophyllum calaba go
  West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice
  
• Maria, Calophyllum longifolium go
  valuable timber tree of Panama
  
• lancewood tree, laurelwood, Calophyllum candidissimum go
  tropical American tree
  
• clusia go
  an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers
  
• wild fig, Clusia flava go
  a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit
  
• ironwood, ironwood tree, rose chestnut, Mesua ferrea go
  handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume
  
• souari nut, souari, souari tree, Caryocar nuciferum go
  large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
  
• dipterocarp go
  tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae
  
• ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa go
  a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries
  
• chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii go
  East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy
  
• Hydnocarpus laurifolia, Hydnocarpus wightiana go
  leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil
  
• idesia, Idesia polycarpa go
  deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries
  
• Australian nettle, Australian nettle tree go
  any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea
  
• fig tree go
  any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus
  
• elm, elm tree go
  any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
  
• hackberry, nettle tree go
  any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits
  
• grass tree, cabbage tree, Cordyline australis go
  elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers
  
• bonduc, bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella go
  tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries
  
• divi-divi, Caesalpinia coriaria go
  small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin
  
• brazilwood, peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata go
  tropical tree with prickly trunk
  
• brazilian ironwood, Caesalpinia ferrea go
  thornless tree yielding heavy wood
  
• shingle tree, Acrocarpus fraxinifolius go
  East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes
  
• msasa, Brachystegia speciformis go
  small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers
  
• cassia go
  any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
  
• locust, locust tree go
  any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
  
• bonduc, Kentucky coffee tree, chicot, Gymnocladus dioica go
  handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute
  
• palo verde, Parkinsonia florida, Cercidium floridum go
  densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark
  
• angelim, andelmin go
  any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira
  
• camwood, African sandalwood, Baphia nitida go
  small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
  
• dhak, dak, palas, Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma go
  East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
  
• rosewood, rosewood tree go
  any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black
  
• sissoo, sissu, sisham, Dalbergia sissoo go
  East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder
  
• kingwood, kingwood tree, Dalbergia cearensis go
  Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood
  
• cocobolo, Dalbergia retusa go
  a valuable timber tree of tropical South America
  
• blackwood, blackwood tree go
  any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
  
• coral tree, erythrina go
  any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds
  
• gliricidia go
  any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches
  
• millettia go
  any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood
  
• tolu tree, tolu balsam tree, Myroxylon balsamum, Myroxylon toluiferum go
  medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork
  
• Peruvian balsam, Myroxylon pereirae, Myroxylon balsamum pereirae go
  tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam
  
• necklace tree go
  a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads
  
• Jamaica dogwood, fish fuddle, Piscidia piscipula, Piscidia erythrina go
  small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods
  
• quira go
  any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber
  
• Indian beech, Pongamia glabra go
  evergreen Asiatic tree having glossy pinnate leaves and racemose creamy-white scented flowers
  
• bloodwood tree, kiaat, Pterocarpus angolensis go
  deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers
  
• padauk, padouk, amboyna, Pterocarpus indicus go
  tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
  
• Burma padauk, Burmese rosewood, Pterocarpus macrocarpus go
  tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany
  
• kino, Pterocarpus marsupium go
  East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
  
• red sandalwood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus go
  tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
  
• carib wood, Sabinea carinalis go
  small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges
  
• scarlet wisteria tree, vegetable hummingbird, Sesbania grandiflora go
  a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers
  
• Japanese pagoda tree, Chinese scholartree, Chinese scholar tree, Sophora japonica, Sophora sinensis go
  handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers
  
• mescal bean, coral bean, frijolito, frijolillo, Sophora secundiflora go
  shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans
  
• kowhai, Sophora tetraptera go
  shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers
  
• tipu, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda, pride of Bolivia go
  semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental
  
• keurboom, Virgilia capensis, Virgilia oroboides go
  tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers
  
• keurboom, Virgilia divaricata go
  fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers
  
• palm, palm tree go
  any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
  
• dagame, lemonwood tree, Calycophyllum candidissimum go
  source of a tough elastic wood
  
• coffee, coffee tree go
  any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
  
• cinchona, chinchona go
  any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
  
• opepe, Nauclea diderrichii, Sarcocephalus diderrichii go
  large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber
  
• lemonwood tree, lemonwood, lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, Psychotria capensis go
  South African evergreen having hard tough wood
  
• medlar, wild medlar, wild medlar tree, Vangueria infausta go
  small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
  
• Spanish tamarind, Vangueria madagascariensis go
  shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit
  
• incense tree go
  any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense
  
• mahogany, mahogany tree go
  any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
  
• Persian lilac, pride-of-India, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, azederach, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach go
  tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits
  
• neem, neem tree, nim tree, margosa, arishth, Azadirachta indica, Melia Azadirachta go
  large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies
  
• satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia go
  East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood
  
• silver ash go
  any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia
  
• lanseh tree, langsat, langset, Lansium domesticum go
  East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry
  
• African walnut, Lovoa klaineana go
  tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany
  
• turreae go
  any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers
  
• lepidobotrys go
  African tree often classified in other families
  
• caracolito, Ruptiliocarpon caracolito go
  large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry
  
• cork tree, Phellodendron amurense go
  deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark
  
• wild orange, trifoliate orange, trifoliata, Poncirus trifoliata go
  small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
  
• prickly ash go
  any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
  
• bitterwood tree go
  any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
  
• pepper tree, Kirkia wilmsii go
  small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs
  
• willow, willow tree go
  any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
  
• sandalwood tree, true sandalwood, Santalum album go
  parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
  
• quandong, quandang, quandong tree, Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus go
  Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed
  
• aalii go
  a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood
  
• soapberry, soapberry tree go
  a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin
  
• aroeira blanca, Schinus chichita go
  small resinous tree or shrub of Brazil
  
• pepper tree, molle, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle go
  small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits
  
• Brazilian pepper tree, Schinus terebinthifolius go
  small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit
  
• ebony, ebony tree, Diospyros ebenum go
  tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
  
• marblewood, marble-wood, Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii go
  large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
  
• beefwood, balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata go
  a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
  
• gutta-percha tree, Palaquium gutta go
  one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha
  
• gutta-percha tree go
  one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha
  
• sapote, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota go
  tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit
  
• Christmas tree, Christmas bush, Ceratopetalum gummiferum go
  Australian tree or shrub with red flowers
  
• sycamore, plane tree, platan go
  any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
  
• calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete go
  tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
  
• Spanish elm, princewood, Cordia gerascanthus go
  tropical American timber tree
  
• white mangrove, Avicennia officinalis go
  a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific
  
• black mangrove, Aegiceras majus go
  an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida
  
• teak, Tectona grandis go
  tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
  
• snag go
  a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
  
• timber tree go
  any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber
  
• treelet go
  a small tree
  
• arbor go
  tree (as opposed to shrub)
  
• bean tree go
  any of several trees having seedpods as fruits
  
• pollard go
  a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
  
• sapling go
  young tree
  
• shade tree go
  a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight
  
• gymnospermous tree go
  any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta
  
• angiospermous tree, flowering tree go
  any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
  
• fever tree go
  any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever
  
• bonsai go
  a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot
  
• nakedwood go
  any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood
  
• hazel, hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala go
  Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
  
• tree of knowledge go
  the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve